Exam 1: Introduction, Acquiring Knowledge, and the Scientific Method.

Finding the address and phone number of a restaurant by Googling the name of the restaurant is an example of using the ____.

What kind of reasoning uses a general statement to make conclusions about specific examples?

Pseudoscience is based on objective,empirical evidence.

The mode of inquiry that is called the method of faith is a variant of which other method of inquiry?

Humans who participate in a research study are properly called research subjects.

The method of tenacity is a nonscientific way of knowing.

Which potential problem can occur the rational method is used?

You have dinner reservations at 7:30 at a restaurant that is 30 minutes away and it is already 7:20,leading you to conclude that you are going to be late.This is an example of using the empirical method.

A student who believes that his or her performance on tests is influenced by wearing a lucky hat is using the method of ____.

When people make an observation,then form a hypothesis that explains the observation,and then make more observations to test the credibility of the hypothesis,they are using the ____.

If the scientific method is being used to evaluate a hypothesis predicting a specific relationship between two variables,then it is essential that both variables can be measured.

A limitation of using the method of empiricism is that ____.

Tiffany is researching methods used to treat autism spectrum disorders and begins by searching on the Internet.Which statement should make her suspicious that she is on a site rooted in pseudoscience?

Describe how the rational method and the method of empiricism are both utilized as parts of the scientific method.

Based on observations of his own children,Jean Piaget formed a theory about the cognitive development of all children.This is an example of ____ reasoning.

What is meant by the saying,"science is empirical?"

Last year Tomas and his friend Jamie were both too short to ride the rollercoaster.Jamie went to the park this year and was tall enough to ride.Because Tomas is taller than Jamie,he thinks that he will be able to ride the rollercoaster as well.Tomas is using the ____ to answer his question.

An explanation is rational if it is based on ____.

One difference between a scientific answer and answers gained by other methods is that the scientific answer is more likely to be an absolute or final answer.

Based on a few students whom you know,you decide that art majors wear funky clothes and that physics majors tend to be nerds.This is an example of inductive reasoning.